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The ANN cast list tells us he does show up eventually, so I don't know why they cut him from this episode. Since he's such a major character in the series, I would think earlier would be better.

Well considering we're half way done with the series at this point...he better show up soon Course they way they introduced Heat and cut out how he orginally met Raz and Alzeid, who knows how they'll introduce him at this point.

Well considering we're half way done with the series at this point...he better show up soon Course they way they introduced Heat and cut out how he orginally met Raz and Alzeid, who knows how they'll introduce him at this point.

One could look at this series, and just see it as a huge reason to check out the manga.

One could look at this series, and just see it as a huge reason to check out the manga.

I would agree with you except that I don't feel as if the anime is doing a good job of leading people into wanting to finding out more. As an advertisement for the manga, the anime hasn't been too successful in my opinion. The individual episodes are too disjointed because the stories are rushed. They don't across as well as they could. In addition, there's still no sign of the main story that makes Hatenkou Yuugi such an interesting read.

I watched the first episode and really couldn't manage much more. I found the story hard to keep up with, since they for some odd reason chose to force two episodes worth of story into one episode (and even when i did catch up i found the story quite boring). The lip synch/voice matchup was patchy in places too.

Overall, i don't want to watch the series. Bad direction, Story moved far too quickly to enjoy and a pretty bland story at that.

Funny how the first episode got pretty low seeds, but as soon as Shinsen picks up episode 4 it get 1300+ seeds. Either it gets better in episode 4 or people just think everything Shinsen subs is pure gold.

There were several comical gags for the fourth episode, but my favorite was....

Spoiler:

To Madeile's earlier question, Rahzel replied that she would let BaroqueHeat and Alzeid to drown because she isn't good at swimming.

In turn, Alzeid kicked her into pond...Alzeid: Just go and drown yourself, idiot.

That made my day, but what creeped me out the most was that an anime rule was broken.

Likely, I haven't watched enough anime, but what I know is that no male character can get even or have his revenge against the cute, lolita-type girl or the cute, high-spirited girl, particularly if she's the heroine.

Ah, learning that Hatenkou Yugi is now only slated for ten episodes disappoints me more than knowing that now that I'm this far into H2O: Footprints in the Sand, I should just man up and try to watch the rest.

I personally like the way it plays out, though, it's very similar to Kino's Journey: standalone episodes with seperate plots, wandering character(s), and the overall amalgamation of the bits and pieces. This episode was a bit more comedy oriented, which I liked, and it also revealed a bit of Rahzel-chan's personality traits. Quite entertaining series overall.

Don't ask me for details on the restaurant scenes and the card game. Ask someone who understood the dialogue. Those scenes weren't in the manga. I'm as much in the dark as any other non-Japanese-speaking viewer.

I swear the town didn't look that large and well-established in the manga. I thought this last week as well but definitely this week. The town was much smaller, more provincial, more closed off, in the manga.

The anime played down the graphic touches. The boy's corpse, the father's suicide, and then the final scene with Larawell. She more seriously wounds Rahzel and doesn't die in a fire. She shoots herself in the head.

The mysterious young man who didn't appear in episode 5 still didn't appear in episode 6. Which is unfortunate because he obliquely raises the question of the origin of criminality. Is the tendency towards criminality a result of nature or nurture? Is it something that is inherent in our genetic makeup? That can be passed down in our genes?

How do you explain a small child growing up in a loving household being able to kill at such a young age? One possible explanation is self-defense. Rahzel killed her mother in self-defense. But Larawell wasn't in such a life-and-death situation. Her first murder was intentional retribution for an injury that was likely an accident. And Larawell kept on murdering as she grew up, reaching the point of actively hunting her victims. Perhaps there is something in Larawell's genetic code that caused her to react murderously?